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LIVING IN HARMONY A founder member of Sha Na Na, HENRY GROSS talks to Spencer Leigh Joe Brown’s recent theatre tour started in the autumn and, with a break for Christmas, has taken in 71 dates. “I had to stop for Christmas,” said Joe, “I can’t compete with the pantos.” The tour was pr

“PRODUCED BY STUART COLMAN” STUART COLMAN has produced 100 artists and had many hits. He tells his story to Spencer Leigh . In 2006, Stuart Colman told me that he had now produced 100 different acts and he thought it might make a feature for ‘Record Collector’. We met for a c

George Martin: Groundbreaking producer who oversaw The Beatles’ best work and elevated art of album making Martin’s work with The Beatles changed popular music forever but he was charmingly modest about his achievements From The Independent 9th March 2016 As well as being

Going Over the Hill and Way Down Underneath “The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.” (Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood) There is a brilliant book ‘Shanties From The Seven Seas’, compiled by Stan Hugill in 1961. Stan Hugill was a sail

Doo-Wop is regarded as an American art form but are there British examples? Spencer Leigh investigates. No bullshit – this feature lives up to its title or at least I hope it does. Already I can hear many of you saying there’s no such thing as British doo-wop. Even the editor of N

The Everly Brothers’ UK tour of 1963 with Little Richard, Bo Diddley and the Rolling Stoness was a long feature of 22,000 words to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the tour that was published in five parts in the UK magazine, Now Dig This, between September 2013 and January 2014, the